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Summary

Offering 59 stories, 458 poems, and 15 plays, the Seventh Edition provides a wealth of classics and contemporaries, canonical favorites and emerging writers. New to the Seventh Edition are pieces by Audre Thomas, Salman Rushdie, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Flannery O'Connor, Seamus Heaney, Marilyn Hacker, Lorraine Hansberry, David Ives, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Laurence, Allen Ginsberg, Nicholson Baker, and Denise Levertov, among many others. The Norton Introduction to Literature offers students more perspectives on the contexts of literature - authorial, literary, cultural, historical, and critical - than any other introductory anthology. Included in the Seventh Edition are three new "Exploring Contexts" chapters. Entitled "Critical Contexts", each includes a literary piece and several examples of professional criticism about that piece to introduce students to the critical discussion surrounding works and authors and to inspire students' own critical writing.

Table of Contents

Fiction

2

(792)

Fiction: Reading, Responding, Writing

2

(19)

Spencer Holst

The Zebra Storyteller

2

(3)

Audre Thomas

Kill Day on the Government Wharf

5

(9)

Guy de Maupassant

The Jewelry

14

(6)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

20

(1)

Understanding the Text

21

(288)

1 PLOT

21

(51)

Margaret Atwood

Happy Endings

26

(3)

John Cheever

The Country Husband

29

(18)

James Baldwin

Sonny's Blues

47

(23)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

70

(2)

2 POINT OF VIEW

72

(31)

Edgar Allan Poe

The Cask of Amontillado

75

(5)

Ambrose Bierce

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

80

(7)

Timothy Findley

Dreams

87

(15)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

102

(1)

3 CHARACTERIZATION

103

(42)

Eudora Welty

Why I Live at the P.O.

107

(9)

Charles Baxter

Fenstad's Mother

116

(10)

Doris Lessing

Our Friend Judith

126

(13)

Grace Paley

A Conversation with My Father

139

(4)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

143

(2)

4 SETTING

145

(39)

Richard Dokey

Sanchez

147

(9)

Amy Tan

A Pair of Tickets

156

(15)

Anton Chekhov

The Lady with the Dog

171

(11)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

182

(2)

5 SYMBOLS

184

(27)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Young Goodman Brown

187

(9)

Franz Kafka

A Hunger Artist

196

(7)

Ann Beattie

Janus

203

(3)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

206

(2)

Geoffrey Clement

STUDENT WRITING: The Struggle to Surface in the Water of "Sonny's Blues"

208

(3)

6 THEME

211

(23)

Katherine Mansfield

Her First Ball

214

(4)

James Joyce

Counterparts

218

(8)

Angela Carter

A Souvenir of Japan

226

(6)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

232

(2)

7 THE WHOLE TEXT

234

(75)

Joseph Conrad

The Secret Sharer

234

(30)

QUESTIONS AND WRITING SUGGESTIONS

264

(1)

Louise Erdrich

Love Medicine

265

(16)

QUESTIONS AND WRITING SUGGESTIONS

281

(1)

Guy Vanderhaeghe

The Watcher

282

(25)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

307

(2)

Exploring Contexts

309

(239)

8 THE AUTHOR'S WORK AS CONTEXT: D. H. LAWRENCE AND FLANNERY O'CONNOR

309

(107)

D. H. Lawrence

315

(44)

Odour of Chrysanthemums

315

(14)

The Blind Man

329

(14)

The Rocking-Horse Winner

343

(11)

Passages from Essays and Letters

354

(5)

Flannery O'Connor

359

(55)

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

359

(12)

The Lame Shall Enter First

371

(26)

Everything That Rises Must Converge

397

(11)

Passages from Essays and Letters

408

(6)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

414

(2)

9 LITERARY KIND AS CONTEXT: INITIATION STORIES

416

(21)

Toni Cade Bambara

Gorilla, My Love

417

(5)

Alice Munro

Boys and Girls

422

(10)

Nicholson Baker

Pants on Fire

432

(3)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

435

(2)

10 FORM AS CONTEXT: THE SHORT STORY

437

(17)

Kate Chopin

The Story of an Hour

438

(2)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

440

(5)

Ernest Hemingway

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

445

(4)

Jamaica Kincaid

Girl

449

(1)

Yasunari Kawabata

The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket

450

(2)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

452

(2)

11 CULTURE AS CONTEXT

454

(46)

Katherine Anne Porter

Holiday

455

(21)

Margaret Laurence

The Rain Child

476

(16)

Jorge Luis Borges

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote

492

(6)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

498

(2)

12 CRITICAL CONTEXTS: A FICTION CASEBOOK

500

(48)

William Faulkner

A Rose for Emily

502

(8)

Daniel Bronson

STUDENT WRITING: "Like the Sand of the Hourglass..."

510

(3)

Lawrence R. Rodgers

"We all said, `she will kill herself'": The Narrator/Detective in William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"

513

(8)

George L. Dillon

Styles of Reading

521

(8)

Judith Fetterley

A Rose for "A Rose for Emily"

529

(7)

Gene M. Moore

Of Time and Its Mathematical Progression: Problems of Chronology in Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"

536

(7)

Willow D. Crystal

STUDENT WRITING: "One of us...": Concepts of the Private and the Public in William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"

543

(5)

Evaluating Fiction

548

(50)

Richard Connell

The Most Dangerous Game

548

(19)

Thaddeus Smith

STUDENT WRITING: Why "The Most Dangerous Game" Is Good Literature

564

(1)

Sara Rosen

STUDENT WRITING: Why "The Most Dangerous Game" Is Not Good Literature

565

(2)

William Faulkner

Barn Burning

567

(16)

Bharati Mukherjee

The Management of Grief

583

(15)

Reading More Fiction

598

(196)

Louisa May Alcott

My Contraband

598

(14)

Henry James

The Real Thing

612

(18)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper

630

(12)

Edith Wharton

Souls Belated

642

(20)

Rudyard Kipling

Without Benefit of Clergy

662

(16)

Susan Glaspell

A Jury of Her Peers

678

(15)

Albert Murray

Train Whistle Guitar

693

(14)

Joyce Carol Oates

The Lady with the Pet Dog

707

(13)

Raymond Carver

Cathedral

720

(10)

Bobbie Ann Mason

Shiloh

730

(11)

Paul Ruffin

Lamar Loper's First Case

741

(12)

Richard Ford

Great Falls

753

(12)

Salman Rushdie

The Prophet's Hair

765

(10)

Lynna Williams

Personal Testimony

775

(8)

Ha Jin

In Broad Daylight

783

(11)

Poetry

794

(532)

Poetry: Reading, Responding, Writing

794

(27)

READING

795

(6)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How Do I Love Thee?

795

(1)

Jarold Ramsey

The Tally Stick

796

(1)

Ezra Pound

The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter

797

(2)

Denise Levertov

Wedding-Ring

799

(1)

Tom Wayman

Wayman in Love

800

(1)

RESPONDING

801

(7)

Ben Jonson

On My First Son

801

(1)

Howard Nemerov

The Vacuum

802

(1)

Sharon Olds

The Glass

803

(2)

Rita Dove

Fifth Grade Autobiography

805

(1)

Anne Sexton

The Fury of Overshoes

806

(2)

WRITING ABOUT POEMS

808

(2)

PRACTICING READING: SOME POEMS ON LOVE

810

(11)

Anne Bradstreet

To My Dear and Loving Husband

810

(1)

William Shakespeare

[Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?]

810

(1)

Leigh Hunt

Rondeau

811

(1)

Denise Levertov

Love Poem

811

(1)

W. H. Auden

[Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone]

812

(1)

Audre Lorde

Recreation

812

(1)

Marge Piercy

To Have without Holding

813

(1)

Elizabeth Bishop

Casabianca

814

(1)

Liz Rosenberg

Married Love

814

(1)

John Dryden

[Why should a foolish marriage vow]

815

(1)

Mary, Lady Chudleigh

To the Ladies

815

(1)

Richard Lovelace

To Althea, from Prison

816

(1)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

[What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why]

817

(1)

Theodore Roethke

She

817

(1)

Karen Chase

Venison

818

(1)

Aphra Behn

On Her Loving Two Equally

818

(1)

William Shakespeare

[Let me not to the marriage of true minds]

819

(1)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

819

(2)

Understanding the Text

821

(244)

13 TONE

821

(25)

Marge Piercy

Barbie Doll

821

(1)

W. D. Snodgrass

Leaving the Motel

822

(2)

Linda Pastan

love poem

824

(2)

Etheridge Knight

Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane

826

(1)

William Blake

London

827

(2)

Maxine Kumin

Woodchucks

829

(1)

Adrienne Rich

Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

829

(3)

MANY TONES: POEMS ABOUT FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS

832

(12)

Galway Kinnell

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps

832

(1)

Seamus Heaney

Mid-Term Break

832

(1)

Pat Mora

Elena

833

(1)

Alberto Alvaro Rios

Mi Abuelo

834

(1)

Sharon Olds

I Go Back to May 1937

835

(1)

Li-Young Lee

Persimmons

835

(2)

Elizabeth Alexander

West Indian Primer

837

(1)

Eamon Grennan

Pause

838

(1)

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Green Chile

839

(1)

Robert Hayden

Those Winter Sundays

840

(1)

James Masao Mitsui

Because of My Father's Job

840

(1)

Simon J. Ortiz

My Father's Song

841

(1)

Susan Musgrave

You Didn't Fit

842

(1)

Alan Dugan

Elegy

843

(1)

Erin Moure

Thirteen Years

844

(1)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

844

(2)

14 SPEAKER: WHOSE VOICE DO WE HEAR?

846

(24)

Thomas Hardy

The Ruined Maid

846

(2)

X. J. Kennedy

In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day

848

(1)

Adrienne Rich

Letters in the Family

849

(3)

Robert Browning

Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister

852

(2)

Tess Gallagher

Sudden Journey

854

(1)

Dorothy Parker

A Certain Lady

855

(2)

A. R. Ammons

Needs

857

(1)

William Wordsworth

She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways

858

(1)

Sharon Olds

The Lifting

859

(1)

Frances Cornford

The New-Born Baby's Song

860

(1)

Audre Lorde

Hanging Fire

860

(1)

John Betjeman

In Westminster Abbey

861

(1)

Henry Reed

Lessons of the War: Judging Distances

862

(1)

Gwendolyn Brooks

We Real Cool

863

(1)

Sir Thomas Wyatt

They Flee from Me

864

(1)

Walt Whitman

[I celebrate myself, and sing myself]

864

(1)

Stevie Smith

I Remember

865

(1)

Pat Mora

La Migra

865

(1)

Sylvia Plath

Mirror

866

(1)

Seamus Heaney

The Outlaw

867

(1)

Margaret Atwood

Death of a Young Son by Drowning

868

(1)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

869

(1)

15 SITUATION AND SETTING: WHAT HAPPENS? WHERE? WHEN?

870

(44)

James Dickey

Cherrylog Road

871

(3)

John Donne

The Flea

874

(1)

Rita Dove

Daystar

875

(1)

Linda Pastan

To a Daughter Leaving Home

876

(1)

John Milton

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont

877

(2)

Sylvia Plath

Point Shirley

879

(2)

Matthew Arnold

Dover Beach

881

(2)

SITUATIONS

883

(8)

Margaret Atwood

Siren Song

883

(1)

Andrew Marvell

To His Coy Mistress

884

(1)

Mary Oliver

Singapore

885

(1)

Louise Gluck

Labor Day

886

(1)

Richard Snyder

A Mongoloid Child Handling Shells on the Beach

886

(1)

Mary Karr

Hubris

887

(1)

John Donne

The Sun Rising

887

(1)

Hart Crane

Episode of Hands

888

(1)

Emily Bronte

The Night-Wind

889

(2)

TIMES

891

(7)

William Shakespeare

[Full many a glorious morning have I seen]

891

(1)

John Donne

The Good-Morrow

891

(1)

Sylvia Plath

Morning Song

892

(1)

Jonathan Swift

A Description of the Morning

892

(1)

Amy Clampitt

Meridian

893

(1)

Karen Volkman

Evening

894

(1)

W. H. Auden

As I Walked Out One Evening

894

(2)

William Shakespeare

Spring

896

(1)

Archibald Lampman

In November

896

(2)

PLACES

898

(6)

April Bernard

Praise Psalm of the City-Dweller

898

(1)

Anthony Hecht

A Hill

898

(1)

Susan Musgrave

I Am Not a Conspiracy Everything Is Not Paranoid The Drug Enforcement Administration Is Not Everywhere

899

(1)

Thomas Gray

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

900

(4)

COMPARING PLACES AND TIMES: THE SENSE OF CULTURAL OTHERNESS

904

(6)

Yvonne Sapia

Grandmother, a Caribbean Indian, Described by My Father

904

(1)

Simon J. Ortiz

Speaking

905

(1)

Agha Shahid Ali

Postcard from Kashmir

906

(1)

Cathy Song

Heaven

906

(2)

Marilyn Chin

We Are Americans Now, We Live in the Tundra

908

(1)

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Indian Movie, New Jersey

908

(2)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

910

(1)

Kimberly Smith

STUDENT WRITING: A Letter to an Author

911

(3)

16 LANGUAGE

914

(52)

PRECISION AND AMBIGUITY

914

(23)

Sarah Cleghorn

[The golf links lie so near the mill]

914

(1)

Anne Finch

Countess of Winchelsea, There's No To-Morrow

915

(1)

Charles Bernstein

Of Time and the Line

915

(2)

Yvor Winters

At the San Francisco Airport

917

(2)

Walter de la Mare

Slim Cunning Hands

919

(1)

Pat Mora

Gentle Communion

920

(1)

Ben Jonson

Still to Be Neat

921

(1)

Robert Herrick

Delight in Disorder

922

(2)

Emily Dickinson

[After great pain, a formal feeling comes-]

924

(1)

Theodore Roethke

My Papa's Waltz

924

(2)

Sharon Olds

Sex without Love

926

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Pied Beauty

927

(1)

Mary Oliver

Morning

927

(1)

William Carlos Williams

The Red Wheelbarrow

928

(1)

E. E. Cummings

[in Just-]

928

(1)

Rita Dove

Parsley

929

(2)

Susan Musgrave

Hidden Meaning

931

(1)

Richard Armour

Hiding Place

931

(1)

Ogden Nash

Reflections on Ice-Breaking

932

(1)

Here Usually Comes the Bride

932

(1)

Emily Dickinson

[I dwell in Possibility-]

932

(1)

John Milton

FROM Paradise Lost

933

(4)

METAPHOR AND SIMILE

937

(14)

William Shakespeare

[That time of year thou mayst in me behold]

937

(2)

Linda Pastan

Marks

939

(1)

David Wagoner

My Father's Garden

940

(1)

Robert Francis

Hogwash

941

(1)

Robert Burns

A Red, Red Rose

942

(2)

Adrienne Rich

Two Songs

944

(1)

1. [Sex, as they harshly call it]

944

(1)

2. [That "old last act"!]

944

(1)

Randall Jarrell

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

945

(1)

Dorothy Livesay

Other

946

(1)

Hart Crane

Forgetfulness

947

(1)

Carolyn Forche

Taking Off My Clothes

947

(1)

Emily Dickinson

[Wild Nights-Wild Nights!]

948

(1)

Agha Shahid Ali

The Dacca Gauzes

948

(1)

Amy Lowell

Aubade

949

(1)

John Donne

[Batter my heart, three-personed God; for You]

950

(1)

Anonymous

The Twenty-third Psalm

950

(1)

SYMBOL

951

(13)

Sharon Olds

Leningrad Cemetery, Winter of 1941

951

(2)

James Dickey

The Leap

953

(2)

John Clare

Love's Emblem

955

(2)

William Blake

The Sick Rose

957

(1)

Edmund Waller

Song

958

(1)

John Gay

[Virgins are like the fair flower in its luster]

959

(1)

Emily Dickinson

[Go not too near a House of Rose-]

959

(1)

William Carlos Williams

Poem

959

(1)

Mary Oliver

Roses, Late Summer

960

(1)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

961

(1)

Robert Frost

The Rose Family

961

(1)

Dorothy Parker

One Perfect Rose

962

(1)

Katha Pollitt

Two Fish

962

(1)

Roo Borson

After a Death

962

(1)

Howard Nemerov

The Town Dump

963

(1)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

964

(2)

17 THE SOUNDS OF POETRY

966

(24)

Helen Chasin

The Word Plum

966

(1)

Mona Van Duyn

What the Motorcycle Said

967

(2)

Kenneth Fearing

Dirge

969

(2)

Alexander Pope

Sound and Sense

971

(2)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Metrical Feet

973

(1)

Wendy Cope

Emily Dickinson

974

(1)

Anonymous

[There was a young lady of Riga]

974

(1)

Sir John Suckling

Song

974

(1)

John Dryden

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham

975

(1)

Michael Harper

Dear John, Dear Coltrane

976

(1)

Stephen Spender

The Express

977

(1)

Judith Wright

"Dove-Love"

978

(1)

Cynthia Zarin

Song

979

(1)

Theodore Roethke

The Waking

979

(1)

William Shakespeare

[Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore]

980

(1)

James Merrill

Watching the Dance

980

(1)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Break, Break, Break

981

(1)

Thomas Nashe

A Litany in Time of Plague

981

(1)

Stevie Smith

Our Bog Is Dood

982

(1)

Earle Birney

Irapuato

983

(1)

Edgar Allan Poe

The Raven

984

(2)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Spring and Fall:

986

(1)

Emily Dickinson

[A narrow Fellow in the Grass]

987

(1)

Robert Herrick

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

988

(1)

Jean Toomer

Reapers

988

(1)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

988

(2)

18 INTERNAL STRUCTURE

990

(25)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Mr. Flood's Party

990

(3)

Howard Nemerov

The Goose Fish

993

(2)

Philip Larkin

Church Going

995

(3)

Pat Mora

Sonrisas

998

(1)

James Wright

Arrangements with Earth for Three Dead Friends

998

(2)

Sharon Olds

The Victims

1000

(2)

Anonymous

Sir Patrick Spens

1002

(1)

T. S. Eliot

Journey of the Magi

1003

(1)

Karl Shapiro

Auto Wreck

1004

(1)

Richard Wilbur

The Pardon

1005

(1)

Emily Dickinson

[The Wind begun to knead the Grass-]

1006

(1)

Roo Borson

Save Us From

1007

(1)

William Carlos Williams

The Dance

1008

(1)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ode to the West Wind

1008

(2)

Louise Bogan

Evening in the Sanitarium

1010

(1)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

1011

(1)

STUDENT WRITING: Structure and Language in "The Victims"

1012

(3)

Sharon Olds

19 EXTERNAL FORM

1015

(32)

THE SONNET

1018

(14)

William Wordsworth

Nuns Fret Not

1018

(1)

Henry Constable

[My lady's presence makes the roses red]

1019

(2)

John Keats

On the Sonnet

1021

(1)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

A Sonnet Is a Moment's Monument

1021

(1)

Countee Cullen

Yet Do I Marvel

1022

(1)

Gwen Harwood

In the Park

1022

(1)

Emma Lazarus

The New Colossus

1023

(1)

Helen Chasin

Joy Sonnet in a Random Universe

1023

(1)

Edwin Morgan

Opening the Cage

1024

(1)

John Milton

[When I consider how my light is spent]

1024

(1)

Claude McKay

The Harlem Dancer

1025

(1)

Helene Johnson

Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem

1025

(1)

William Wordsworth

The world is too much with us

1026

(1)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ozymandias

1026

(1)

Archibald Lampman

Winter Evening

1027

(1)

Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

The Potato Harvest

1027

(1)

Robert Frost

Once by the Pacific

1028

(1)

Gwendolyn Brooks

First Fight. Then Fiddle.

1028

(1)

William Wordsworth

London, 1802

1029

(1)

Claude McKay

The White House

1029

(1)

Sir Philip Sidney

[When Nature made her chief work, Stella's eyes]

1030

(1)

William Shakespeare

[My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun]

1030

(1)

Diane Ackerman

Sweep Me through Your Many-Chambered Heart

1031

(1)

STANZA FORMS

1032

(6)

Dylan Thomas

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

1033

(1)

Marianne Moore

Poetry

1033

(1)

Elizabeth Bishop

Sestina

1034

(1)

Ishmael Reed

beware : do not read this poem

1035

(2)

Archibald MacLeish

Ars Poetica

1037

(1)

THE WAY A POEM LOOKS

1038

(7)

Franklin P. Adams

Composed in the Composing Room

1038

(1)

E. E. Cummings

[Buffalo Bill's]

1039

(1)

Stevie Smith

The Jungle Husband

1040

(1)

George Herbert

Easter Wings

1041

(1)

Robert Herrick

The Pillar of Fame

1041

(1)

Mary Oliver

Goldenrod

1042

(1)

E. E. Cummings

[(l)(a]

1043

(1)

Mary Ellen Solt

Lilac

1043

(1)

John Hollander

A State of Nature

1044

(1)

Earle Birney

Anglosaxon Street

1044

(1)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

1045

(2)

20 THE WHOLE TEXT

1047

(18)

Elizabeth Jennings

Delay

1047

(1)

Anonymous

Western Wind

1049

(1)

Robert Herrick

Upon Julia's Clothes

1050

(2)

W. H. Auden

Musee des Beaux Arts

1052

(1)

George Herbert

The Collar

1053

(1)

Emily Dickinson

[My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun-]

1054

(1)

Robert Frost

Design

1054

(1)

D. H. Lawrence

Piano

1055

(1)

Liz Rosenberg

A Lesson in Anatomy

1055

(1)

Jonathan Swift

A Description of a City Shower

1056

(1)

Sir Walter Ralegh

The Author's Epitaph, Made by Himself

1057

(1)

Anne Sexton

With Mercy for the Greedy

1058

(1)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

1059

(1)

Meaghan E. Parker

STUDENT WRITING: Tragedy in Five Stanzas: "Woodchucks"

1060

(5)

Exploring Contexts

1065

(171)

21. THE AUTHOR'S WORK AS CONTEXT: JOHN KEATS

1065

(16)

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

1067

(1)

On the Grasshopper and the Cricket

1068

(1)

On Seeing the Elgin Marbles

1068

(1)

When I Have Fears

1068

(1)

Ode to a Nightingale

1069

(2)

Ode on a Grecian Urn

1071

(2)

Ode on Melancholy

1073

(1)

To Autumn

1074

(1)

Passages from Letters and the Preface to Endymion

1075

(5)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

1080

(1)

22 THE AUTHOR'S WORK IN CONTEXT: ADRIENNE RICH

1081

(24)

At a Bach Concert

1082

(1)

Storm Warnings

1083

(1)

Living in Sin

1083

(1)

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law

1084

(4)

Planetarium

1088

(1)

Dialogue

1089

(1)

Diving into the Wreck

1090

(2)

Power

1092

(1)

For the Record

1092

(1)

[My mouth hovers across your breasts]

1093

(1)

Walking down the Road

1094

(1)

Delta

1094

(1)

History

1095

(1)

From Interviews and Personal Reflections

1096

(8)

QUESTION/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

1104

(1)

23 LITERARY TRADITION AS CONTEXT

1105

(47)

ECHO AND ALLUSION

1106

(7)

Ben Jonson

Come, My Celia

1107

(1)

William Blake

The Lamb

1108

(1)

Howard Nemerov

Boom!

1108

(2)

Marianne Moore

Love in America?

1110

(1)

Robert Hollander

You Too? Me Too-Why Not? Soda Pop

1111

(1)

William Shakespeare

[Not marble, nor the gilded monuments]

1112

(1)

POETIC "KINDS"

1113

(2)

Christopher Marlowe

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

1113

(2)

THE EPIGRAM

1115

(5)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What Is an Epigram?

1116

(1)

Ben Jonson

Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.

1116

(1)

Martial

[You've told me, Maro, whilst you live]

1116

(1)

John Gay

My Own Epitaph

1117

(1)

Richard Crashaw

An Epitaph upon a Young Married Couple, Dead and Buried Together

1117

(1)

X. J. Kennedy

Epitaph for a Postal Clerk

1118

(1)

Countee Cullen

For a Lady I Know

1118

(1)

Mary Barber

To Novella, on her saying deridingly, that a Lady of great Merit, and fine Address, was bred in the Old Way.

1118

(1)

Peter Pindar

Epigram

1118

(1)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

First Fig

1119

(1)

HAIKU

1120

(8)

Chiyojo

[Whether astringent]

1120

(2)

Basho

1122

(1)

[A village without bells-]

1122

(1)

[This road-]

1122

(1)

[First snow]

1122

(1)

[Another year gone-]

1122

(1)

Buson

1122

(1)

[Coolness-]

1122

(1)

[Listening to the moon]

1123

(1)

Issa

1123

(1)

[The moon and the flowers]

1123

(1)

[The snail gets up]

1123

(1)

[Insects on a bough]

1123

(1)

[As I grow older]

1123

(1)

Seifu

[The faces of dolls]

1124

(1)

Chiyojo

[Bearing no flowers]

1124

(1)

Hashin

[No sky and no earth]

1124

(1)

Onitsura

[Come! Come! Though I call]

1124

(1)

Lafcadio Hearn

[Old pond--...]

1125

(1)

Clara A. Walsh

[An old-time pond, from off whose shadowed depth]

1125

(1)

John Thomas Bryan

[There is the old pond!]

1125

(1)

R. H. Blyth

[The old pond]

1125

(1)

Earl Miner

[The still old pond]

1126

(1)

Allen Ginsberg

[The old pond-a frog jumps in, kerplunk!]

1126

(1)

Babette Deutsch

[The falling flower]

1126

(1)

J. W. Hackett

[Up close, at the place]

1126

(1)

Etheridge Knight

[Eastern guard tower]

1127

(1)

Allen Ginsberg

[Looking over my shoulder]

1127

(1)

Richard Wright

[In the falling snow]

1127

(1)

IMITATING AND ANSWERING

1128

(7)

Sir Walter Ralegh

The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

1128

(1)

William Carlos Williams

Raleigh Was Right

1129

(1)

E. E. Cummings

[(ponder, darling, these busted statues]

1130

(1)

Peter De Vries

To His Importunate Mistress

1131

(1)

Allen Ginsberg

A Further Proposal

1132

(1)

Kenneth Koch

Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams

1132

(1)

Desmond Skirrow

Ode on a Grecian Urn Summarized

1133

(1)

Anthony Hecht

The Dover Bitch

1133

(1)

Wendy Cope

[Not only marble, but the plastic toys]

1134

(1)

CULTURAL BELIEF AND TRADITION

1135

(15)

John Hollander

Adam's Task

1136

(1)

Susan Donnelly

Eve Names the Animals

1136

(1)

Christina Rossetti

Eve

1137

(2)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Ulysses

1139

(2)

Miriam Waddington

Ulysses Embroidered

1141

(1)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

An Ancient Gesture

1142

(1)

Langston Hughes

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

1143

(1)

June Jordan

Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Miracle Wheatley

1143

(1)

Maya Angelou

Africa

1144

(1)

Derek Walcott

A Far Cry from Africa

1144

(1)

Ishmael Reed

I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra

1145

(2)

Judith Ortiz Cofer

How to Get a Baby

1147

(1)

Alberto Alvaro Rios

Advice to a First Cousin

1148

(1)

Louise Erdrich

Jacklight

1149

(1)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

1150

(2)

24 HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS

1152

(40)

James A. Emanuel

Emmett Till

1153

(1)

Thomas Hardy

Channel Firing

1154

(1)

Sandra Gilbert

Sonnet: The Ladies' Home Journal

1155

(4)

TIMES, PLACES, AND EVENTS

1159

(12)

Miller Williams

Thinking about Bill, Dead of AIDS

1159

(1)

Irving Layton

From Colony to Nation

1159

(1)

Mary Jo Salter

Welcome to Hiroshima

1160

(1)

Dwight Okita

Notes for a Poem on Being Asian American

1161

(1)

Donald Justice

Children Walking Home from School through Good Neighborhood

1162

(1)

Claude McKay

America

1163

(1)

Langston Hughes

Harlem (A Dream Deferred)

1163

(1)

Robert Hayden

Frederick Douglass

1164

(1)

Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali

Boy on a Swing

1164

(1)

Thomas Hardy

The Convergence of the Twain

1165

(1)

Wilfred Owen

Dulce et Decorum Est

1166

(1)

Richard Eberhart

The Fury of Aerial Bombardment

1167

(1)

William Stafford

At the Bomb Testing Site

1168

(1)

Dudley Randall

Ballad of Birmingham

1168

(1)

Ai, Riot Act, April 29, 1992

1169

(2)

CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY, EXPLORING GENDER

1171

(20)

Robert Browning

My Last Duchess

1171

(1)

Richard Lovelace

Song: To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

1172

(1)

Isaac Rosenberg

Break of Day in the Trenches

1173

(1)

Edgar A. Guest

The Things That Make a Soldier Great

1173

(1)

Wilfred Owen

Disabled

1174

(1)

Paulette Jiles

Paper Matches

1175

(1)

Marge Piercy

What's That Smell in the Kitchen?

1176

(1)

Dorothy Parker

Indian Summer

1176

(1)

Elizabeth

When I Was Fair and Young

1177

(1)

Theodore Roethke

I Knew a Woman

1177

(1)

Ruth Stone

Second-Hand Coat

1178

(1)

Richard Wilbur

She

1178

(1)

Katherine Philips

L'amitie: To Mrs. M. Awbrey

1179

(1)

Kay Smith

Annunciation

1180

(1)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

[Women have loved before as I love now]

1181

(1)

Aphra Behn

To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More Than Woman

1181

(1)

Liz Rosenberg

The Silence of Women

1182

(1)

Sharon Olds

The Elder Sister

1183

(1)

Elizabeth Bishop

Exchanging Hats

1183

(1)

Judith Ortiz Cofer

The Changeling

1184

(1)

Amy Lowell

The Lonely Wife

1185

(1)

Elizabeth Spires

The Bodies

1186

(1)

Marilyn Hacker

[Who would divorce her lover...]

1187

(1)

Ha Jin

The Past

1188

(1)

Diane Wakoski

The Ring of Irony

1188

(1)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

[I, being born a woman and distressed]

1190

(1)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

1191

(1)

25 CRITICAL CONTEXTS: A POETRY CASEBOOK

1192

(32)

Sylvia Plath

Daddy

1194

(3)

George Steiner

Dying Is an Art

1197

(3)

Irving Howe

The Plath Celebration: A Partial Dissent

1200

(2)

A. Alvarez

Sylvia Plath

1202

(2)

Judith Kroll

Rituals of Exorcism: "Daddy"

1204

(3)

Mary Lynn Broe

FROM Protean Poetic

1207

(3)

Margaret Homans

From A Feminine Tradition

1210

(2)

Pamela J. Annas

FROM A Disturbance in Mirrors

1212

(3)

Steven Gould Axelrod

Jealous Gods

1215

(9)

26 THE PROCESS OF CREATION

1224

(12)

Richard Wilbur

Love Calls Us to the Things of This World

1225

(2)

John Keats

1227

(1)

[Bright star! would I were stedfast as thou art!]

1227

(1)

To Autumn

1228

(1)

Alexander Pope

Ode on Solitude

1229

(2)

Anonymous

[O where ha' you been, Lord Randal, my son?]

1231

(1)

Marianne Moore

Poetry

1232

(1)

Emily Dickinson

[Safe in their Alabaster Chambers-]

1233

(1)

William Blake

The Tyger

1233

(3)

Evaluating Poetry

1236

(14)

William Shakespeare

[Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame]

1239

(2)

John Donne

Song

1241

(2)

Irving Layton

Street Funeral

1243

(1)

Geoffrey Hill

In Memory of Jane Fraser

1243

(1)

Galway Kinnell

Blackberry Eating

1244

(1)

Emily Dickinson

[The Brain-is wider than the Sky-]

1244

(1)

Chidiock Tichborne

Elegy

1245

(1)

Wallace Stevens

Anecdote of the Jar

1245

(1)

Elizabeth Bishop

The Armadillo

1246

(1)

John Crowe Ransom

Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter

1247

(1)

Alice Walker

Revolutionary Petunias

1248

(1)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

1248

(2)

Reading More Poetry

1250

(76)

W. H. Auden

In Memory of W. B. Yeats

1250

(2)

Gwendolyn Brooks

1252

(1)

To the Diaspora

1252

(1)

The Coora Flower

1252

(1)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Kubla Khan: or, a Vision in a Dream

1253

(1)

Hart Crane

1254

(1)

To Emily Dickinson

1254

(1)

Exile

1255

(1)

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

1255

(1)

Sea Rose

1255

(1)

Helen

1255

(1)

Emily Dickinson

1256

(2)

[Because I could not stop for Death-]

1256

(1)

[I reckon-when I count at all-]

1257

(1)

[My life closed twice before its close-]

1257

(1)

[We do not play on Graves-]

1257

(1)

[She dealt her pretty words like Blades-]

1258

(1)

John Donne

1258

(3)

The Canonization

1258

(1)

[Death be not proud, though some have called thee]

1259

(1)

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

1260

(1)

Paul Laurence Dunbar

1261

(1)

Sympathy

1261

(1)

We Wear the Mask

1261

(1)

T. S. Eliot

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

1262

(4)

Robert Frost

1266

(1)

Range-Finding

1266

(1)

The Road Not Taken

1266

(1)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

1267

(1)

Allen Ginsberg

1267

(2)

A Supermarket in California

1267

(1)

Velocity of Money

1268

(1)

Thomas Hardy

1269

(1)

The Darkling Thrush

1269

(1)

During Wind and Rain

1269

(1)

Seamus Heaney

The Summer of Lost Rachel

1270

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

1271

(1)

God's Grandeur

1271

(1)

The Windhover

1272

(1)

Langston Hughes

Theme for English B

1272

(1)

A. M. Klein

Heirloom

1273

(1)

Richard Lovelace

To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair

1274

(1)

Robert Lowell

Skunk Hour

1275

(1)

Andrew Marvell

1276

(4)

The Garden

1276

(2)

The Mower, against Gardens

1278

(1)

On a Drop of Dew

1279

(1)

John Milton

Lycidas

1280

(5)

Howard Nemerov

A Way of Life

1285

(1)

Michael Ondaatje

King Kong Meets Wallace Stevens

1286

(1)

Dorothy Parker

Comment

1287

(1)

Sylvia Plath

1287

(3)

Black Rook in Rainy Weather

1287

(1)

Lady Lazarus

1288

(2)

Ezra Pound

1290

(1)

The Garden

1290

(1)

In a Station of the Metro

1291

(1)

A Virginal

1291

(1)

Theodore Roethke

The Dream

1291

(1)

Muriel Rukeyser

1292

(1)

Reading Time : 1 Minute 26 Seconds

1292

(1)

Myth

1293

(1)

William Shakespeare

1293

(2)

[Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings]

1293

(1)

[Two loves I have of comfort and despair]

1294

(1)

[They that have power to hurt and will do none]

1294

(1)

Winter

1294

(1)

Wallace Stevens

1295

(5)

The Idea of Order at Key West

1295

(1)

The Emperor of Ice-Cream

1296

(1)

Sunday Morning

1297

(3)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Tears, Idle Tears

1300

(1)

Dylan Thomas

1301

(2)

Fern Hill

1301

(1)

In My Craft or Sullen Art

1302

(1)

Jean Toomer

Song of the Son

1303

(1)

Walt Whitman

1303

(8)

Facing West from California's Shores

1303

(1)

I Hear America Singing

1304

(1)

A Noiseless Patient Spider

1304

(1)

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed

1305

(6)

Richard Wilbur

1311

(2)

The Beautiful Changes

1311

(1)

Museum Piece

1312

(1)

Transit

1312

(1)

William Carlos Williams

This Is Just to Say

1313

(1)

William Wordsworth

Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798

1313

(4)

W. B. Yeats

1317

(9)

Easter 1916

1317

(2)

The Second Coming

1319

(1)

Leda and the Swan

1320

(1)

Sailing to Byzantium

1320

(1)

Among School Children

1321

(2)

Byzantium

1323

(3)

Drama

1326

Drama: Reading, Responding, Writing

1326

(27)

Susan Glaspell

Trifles

1329

(11)

David Ives

Sure Thing

1340

(9)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

1349

(1)

Caryl Zook

STUDENT WRITING: Trifles

1350

(3)

Understanding the Text

1353

(298)

CHARACTER

1353

(3)

STRUCTURE

1356

(1)

STAGES, SETS, AND SETTING

1357

(3)

TONE

1360

(1)

THEME

1361

(1)

Lillian Hellman

The Little Foxes

1362

(50)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

1412

(2)

Bernard Shaw

Pygmalion

1414

(73)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

1487

(2)

Henrik Ibsen

Hedda Gabler

1489

(57)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

1546

(2)

William Shakespeare

Hamlet

1548

(98)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

1646

(2)

Jeanette Sperhac

STUDENT WRITING: The Play's the Thing: Deception in Hamlet

1648

(3)

Exploring Contexts

1651

(351)

27 THE AUTHOR'S WORK AS CONTEXT: ANTON CHEKHOV

1651

(60)

The Bear

1656

(11)

On the Injurious Effects of Tobacco

1667

(3)

The Cherry Orchard

1670

(38)

Passages from Letters

1708

(2)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

1710

(1)

28 LITERARY CONTEXT: TRAGEDY AND COMEDY

1711

(90)

Sophocles

Oedipus the King

1714

(40)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

1754

(1)

Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest

1755

(45)

QUESTIONS/WRITING SUGGESTIONS

1800

(1)

29 CULTURE AS CONTEXT: SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL SETTING

1801

(144)

Lorraine Hansberry

A Raisin in the Sun

1805

(65)

Arthur Miller

Death of a Salesman

1870

(72)

Sherry Schnake

STUDENT WRITING: Dream of a Salesman

1942

(3)

30 CRITICAL CONTEXTS: A DRAMA CASEBOOK

1945

(57)

Sophocles

Antigone

1948

(32)

Richard C. Jebb

FROM The Antigone of Sophocles

1980

(2)

Maurice Bowra

FROM Sophoclean Tragedy

1982

(2)

Bernard Knox

Introduction to Sophocles: The Three Theban Plays

1984

(5)

George Steiner

FROM Antigones

1989

(5)

Martha C. Nussbaum

FROM The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy

1994

(4)

Rebecca W. Bushnell

FROM Prophesying Tragedy: Sign and Voice in Sophocles' Theban Plays

1998

(2)

Mary Whitlock Blundell

FROM Helping Friends and Harming Enemies: A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics